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* * Equestrian Statue

... evidence it. A Petersfleld resident, Mr. Nor- Burton. has since written to r mtemporary: In the days of llyUons. who were Whig Memhe s of Parliament for Petersfield ' old days. when they were s at the poll, the horse was 2 but when they lost their seat ...

NEWS FROM A DAUGHTER BATH

... QUEEN CITY BLITZ FUND Among the latest batch of Canadian and American contemporaries to reach us is the Kingston. Ontario. Whig- Standard of June 19. We opened it to find a double-column headline announcing: Garden party at Bath, Ontario, adds people ...

THE SOMERSET STANDARD FIRST ELECTION: DECEMBER, 1832

... THE SOMERSET STANDARD FIRST ELECTION: DECEMBER, 1832 The candidates were Mr. Thomas Sheppanl, who posed first as a Whig, then as a Liberal-Conservative. next as a Conservative, and then as an out-and-out Protectionist : and Sir Thomas Champneya (Liberal) ...

Published: Friday 13 July 1945
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 484 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

THIRD ELSCTION : AUCIVBT, 1837

... THIRD ELSCTION : AUCIVBT, 1837 .1t this election the Radicals and Whigs were united, and only Mr. Sheppard and Admiral Boyle went to the poll. The election proved most exciting, as parties had become pretty evenly balanced, and the result was that Mr ...

Published: Friday 13 July 1945
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 485 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

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... parsons; but once disestablish it, and begad ! they’ll kick us.” This was said over a hundred years ago by a member of the great Whig aristocracy, which Disraeli likened to the Venetian oligarchy. There is a bitter truth underlying these words. It is far too ...

Published: Friday 10 September 1948
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 430 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

LOCAL NOTES & QUERIES

... freemen and freeholders. With its 6 000 electors Uome of the elections here were disgraceful scandal Sometimes (the two oarties Whig and Torv. i agreed share the seats, but if was not done the elections were a«> described above The qualifications for County ...

THE EDITOR'S DESK

... the country, been nationalised from January Ist. The whole system now comes under the title of British Railways. Werth el Whigs We have been asked to call attention to the meeting to be held at the Frome Cooperative Ball on Wednesday evening next, which ...

Published: Friday 02 January 1948
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 511 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

A little blond English lassie was jinxed on Saturday as a Quincyan's bride,” states a recent issue of the vjuincey

... blond English lassie was jinxed on Saturday as a Quincyan's bride,” states a recent issue of the vjuincey (Illinois) Herald-Whig. The re port goes on to say that the English girl is Miss Elsie Ivy Dudden, 6, Orchard Lottages, Croscombe, Wells, and she ...

Published: Friday 19 March 1948
Newspaper: Wells Journal
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 563 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

THAT MAN

... at the Trade Union Hall, Vestry Road, Street, on Wednesday next, Feb. znd, at 7 p.m. Mr. Pilkington, Area Organiser.—Advt. Whig Drtele.—The winners at the recent whist drives played at the Club and Institute were as follows:—Wednesday last week: Ladies ...

Published: Friday 28 January 1944
Newspaper: Central Somerset Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 551 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

The ANNUAL MEETING

... remembered by his wife. Mrs. A. E. Samways, and two daughters, Mn. Keene (Flo), Portsmouth, Mrs. Coombs (Daisy), Farnborough. (153 Whig .—ln ever-lovim memory of a dear wife and mother, Ellen Kate Wheeler, who passed away March 18th, 1940. Always .remembend by ...

Published: Friday 20 March 1942
Newspaper: Somerset Standard
County: Somerset, England
Type: | Words: 532 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

DEMON FLIGHT-LEUTENANI `IIIE JEW MAGNET

... bullets art a gosh in the British lbw and mother buffet wounded I Mud gamer_ ' By Illmowing from kit to husiever. the able be Whig the ere from six amehine-ipsse be horn en the Barmier. The I hied to take reeiding bp twenty fret of uere sea.l it was again ...